Because it's easier to kick one habit when you've got another to fall back on. And what could be a tastier addiction than frosted cheesecake? And it would quickly help you add on the pounds lost to heroin addiction. Or something.

The last cake reminded me of a 1 Year Clean party we threw for a friend who went through rehab to kick painkillers. The cake we got him was in the shape of a large capsule with "Percocet" written across it in the most beautiful calligraphy ever. No pictures (of course!), but he laughed so hard, he cried. Some of the guests were less than . . . enthusiastic.Sometimes inside jokes are best left unexplained.

My 4 year old niece asked me to click on a cute cake in this post. As we scrolled down, she discovered that there are no cute cakes. Too bad she can't read to understand that saying no to drugs gets you a cheesecake:)

I see I'm not the only one whose mind immediately went to Pride and Prejudice with the "tolerable" one. I wonder if the recipient was a Jane Austen fan. Not sure what the deal is with the tie-dye airbrushing though...

As for the others, I'm trying to decide if I want to know the stories behind them (because inscriptions that strange have to have some kind of story attached).

I am proud to say that I ordered the first cake on this post for a friend. It is, indeed, an inside joke, and one that the bakery didn't get. When a friend went to pick it up, they were afraid to give it to him, thinking someone in their kitchen had made a horrible, horrible mistake.

I wonder if the tolerance cake is a gay reference; the rainbow color motif is what made me think about that. So often, people use the word "tolerance" in conjunction with "gays," and I've heard people balk at that. "I'd like to be more than tolerated." I wonder if it's an inside joke based on that?

Lol I think I nearly choked on my soda reading all these cakes. Wow such anger these wreckerators are showing. Some are actually kinda pretty in a way but nothing beats the thank god your leaving cake. Heck I would have liked that one when I left to get married lol. Because I would agree with it :D.

I tried to be polite to all these cakes, but damn, it's more fun being snarky!

#1 The handwriting is so beautiful, and they even spelled "you're" correctly. It was very sweet of Whitney's cellblock to get her a cake to commiserate her having to spend her birthday in prison. Plus there's a file baked inside.

#2 The recipient of the cake is a lovely person who was expected to leave the ICU on a slab. Everyone is so happy she is leaving on her own two feet that they got her a cake.

#3 Whitney's sister may be a slut, but so long as she doesn't charge for it, she can celebrate her birthday on the outside.

#4 See? I told you it didn't take much to get with Whitney's sister.

#5 Recipient recently lost her job as a zebra tamer for being unqualified. Cake intended to remind her she is qualified for something.

#6 This is a touching breakthrough from a father to his gay son. After many years of separation he took to heart Jesus' words of love and tolerance and made the first step. Next year he might let his son eat off the china instead of giving him a paper plate for his cake.

Riiiiiiiight! Sure! If you honestly say so. While the cakes LOOK good enough, I'm sure there has to be a logical explanation for some of this. Are these honest mistakes or did someone ACTUALLY order these things? Some I can say 'yes, they probably did,' but the rest confuse me. I'm going back to bed.

#1 The wreckerator was afraid they had made a mistake? Having no fear (or awareness) of mistakes is what makes a wreckerator in the first place. Since this is a properly-executed inside joke (even spelled correctly and written legibly!), this is no wreck. The 'share and enjoy' area at the side is probably part of the joke. One hopes.

#2 Perhaps this cake was to celebrate the successful restoration to health of a favorite rosebush. At least the 'G' is capitalized. That almost atones for the missing apostrophe and 'e'.

#3 The line used to be, "Sweet 16 and never been kissed." That went out about the time I was born, so I wonder what the cakeworthy occasion will be in 10 years -- 'Hasn't Killed Anyone Today (that we know of)'? I join Mr. Incredible in asking, "Why do they keep finding new ways to celebrate mediocrity?!"

#4 [Singing] "Three of these letters are not like the other ones..."

"Let's see... C-l-a-v-i-c...wait, is it l-e-s or a-l-s? Clavic-less or clavic-ALs? Ohmygod, it must be a-l-s! I'm like totally glad I learned phonics and stuff! I gotta go -- finish it for me, newbie."

#5 "I told you having this party on the 'African Queen' was a bad idea -- the leeches would get to the cake in no time! Plus, I was far from sure we'd make it back, what with that engine sounding like it did. But the captain was a real character." Bonus: Shop-note-as-inscription. Who needs tact, anyway?

#7 As an major fan of cheesecake, I am fairly certain the surface of this cake is frosting-free. Except for the writing, of course. I'll add my own congratulations to the recipient, and to the decorator for the nice writing and spelling.

I agree with what some have already said--some of these cakes have such lovely writing! I love the first and last ones, and the "sweet 16" cake.

We've done a couple of inside-joke cakes, the most fun of which happened around the time Napoleon Dynamite came out. My friend's mother had overcome a difficult health challenge and decided to turn over a new leaf in life and go back to school to get her degree. So of course, we made my friend a cake that said "Your MOM goes to college" and decorated it with tater tots. :D

#4 is definitely not a professional cake! The cake part looks fine but the writing is horrible. I just can't believe that that's a professional cake. However, the "Sweet Sixteen" cake had beautiful handwriting!!

I think the "nice clavicals" cake could be a reference to an Alkaline Trio song with a line that says "I wanna wake up next to you kissing the curve of your clavicals"...But then again, I could be giving these people way too much credit.

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